Improvement in umbrella-runners



iutrd States @met @twine Letters Patent No. 90,883, dated June 1, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN UMBRELLA-RUNNERS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom fit 'may concern,

Be it lknown that I, Olmes M. SMITH, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented an Improvement in Notches and Runners for Umbrellas; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe saine. A

My invention consists of a ready, eiicient, and economical inode, -fully described hereafter, of making the grooved and slotted anges of notchesand runners for umbrellas. 1

ln order to enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, which forms a part of' this specification, and in which- Eignres 1, 2, and 3, are plan views of the three annulrir plates, which together form' a part of my improvednotch or runner, fr umbrellas and parasols Figure 4, an edge view oi' rg. l;

Figure 5, an edge view of iig. 2;

Fignre, an edge view of fig. 3;

Figure 7, an exterior view of the complete notch; and i Figure S, a sectional View of the same.

All the figures are drawn to an enlarged scale.

A is the tube ofthe notch, and to this tnbe are soldered the three metal rings a, b, and c.

Each of these rings has as many slots, x, as there are ribs in the umbrella, and in the ring b, fig. 2. Each piece of metal kbetween the slots is split, so as to form two lips, y and yone being bent upward and the other downward, throughout the series.

A ring, with a groove, m, on its edge, is thus formed, the lips y andy constituting the edges of the grooves, or, as they. may be termed, ilanges, discontinued at intervals.'

Ihe rings are then fitted to the tube A, rst the ring b, between the rings a and c, care being taken to so adjust them that the slots :t of the whole of the rings coincide with cach other. 'lhe notch is now complete, there being in it thedesired'number of slots for receiving the pierced ends of the ribs, and a groove, m, for receiving the wire which passes, throughV the holesin the ribs.

The runner, which is arranged to slide on the stick of the umbrella, may be made in a precisely similar manner, excepting that the tube A has to be considerably longer than that of the notch.

It has been the practice to make the groovcd and slotted flanges of umbrella-notches out of solid rings of brass, soldered to the tubes, a plan demanding tedious manipulation. v

In carrying ont my invention, the rings a, b, and c, are quickly stamped out of the tinned plates, the lips of the middle ring being as rapidly bent to the desired shape. Alhile a grooved and slotted flange equal to those formerly made of solid metal is thus produced, there isa saving in the cost of material, time, and labor.

I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- An umbrella-notch, or runner, in which the grooved or slotted Bange is made of three sheet-metal rings, formed .and adapted to each other, substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth.

i In testimony whereof, l have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ORREN M. SMITH.

Witnesses J ons Wurm. HARRY SMITH. 

